Christoph Markschies studied Classics, Philosophy and Theology at the Universities of Marburg, Munich and Tübingen and in Jerusalem, 1988 till 1994 Assistant and Lecturer at the University of Tübingen, 1991 PhD, 1994 Habilitation at Tübingen.

Academic and Professional Career

• Since 2020 President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
• 2012-2018 Vice-President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
• 2003-2015 Secretary of the Class of Humanities of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (former Prussian Academy of Sciences)
• 2013 Senior Fellow Martin Buber Society Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• 2010 Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton
• 2009/2010 Stewart Visiting Research Scholar in the Humanities Council, Programm of Jewish Studies, University of Princeton
• 2008/2009, 2013 and 2019 Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford
• since 2004 Chair of Church History (Ancient Christianity) at the Humboldt University of Berlin
• 2000-2004 Chair of Church History at the Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg
• 1999/2000, 2005/2006 and 2016/2017 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• 1998/1999 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study
• 1994-2000 Chair of Church History at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

(Corresponding/Foreign) Member of the:

• European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Academia Europea
• Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• German Archeological Institute
• Academia Ambrosiana Milan
• Heidelberger Academy of Science
• Mainzer Academy of Science and Literature

Previous functions in scientific committees

• 2017 Federal Cross of Merit (1st Class)
• 2016 Director of Chronoi – Einstein Research Enter Chronoi (on Time and Awareness of Time in Ancient Societies), Berlin
• 2014 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Honours and Awarded Memberships

• 2017 doctor honoris causa of the Pontifical Lateran University – Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum
• 2011 doctor honoris causa of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo
• 2010 Salzburg University Prize
• 2007 doctor honoris causa of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of Lucian- Blaga-University Sibiu/Hermannstadt
• 2001 Leibniz-Award of the German National Research Council
• 1995 Hanns-Lilje-Award of the Goettingen Academy of Sciences
• 1980 State’s President’s Price for Young Historians

After his studies at the Universities of Münster and Freiburg, Roland Göhde was active at Partec GmbH in Münster as HIV/AIDS Project Coordinator and as Director Essential Healthcare. Göhde became Managing Partner of Partec GmbH Görlitz founded in 2000, later Senior Managing Director of German diagnostics and biotechnology company Sysmex Partec. Since 2014, Roland Göhde is furthermore acting as Chairman of the Board of GHA – German Health Alliance, former German Healthcare Partnership (GHP), an initiative which has been jointly established in 2010 by the German government and BDI – Federation of German Industries.

Activities & Positions

• Since 2021: Member of the Advisory Board | Institute for Research in International Assistance (IRIA), Akkon University of Applied Sciences for Human Sciences
• Since 2021: EU Climate Pact Ambassador
• Since 2020: Member of the Board of Trustees | Neurological Rehabilitation Centre NRZ Godeshöhe Bonn
• Since 2019: Member of the Advisory Group | UNAIDS Health Innovation Exchange (HIEx)
• Since 2019: Member of the Steering Committee | Global Health Hub Germany
• Since 2019: Member of the Board | BDI Committee for Industrial Health Economy
• Since 2019: Member of the Strategic Board | BDI Initiative Digital Health
• Since 2018: Chair | Private Sector Advisory Board of GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
• Since 2017: Member | World Health Summit Council
• Since 2017: Permanent Guest of the BDI Presidential Board
• 2016: Initiator of the German Global Health Award, granted for the first time in 2017
• Since 2014: Chairman of the Board | GHA – German Health Alliance
• Since 2014: Member of the Board | German-African Business Association (Afrika-Verein)
• Since 2014: Senior Managing Director | Sysmex Partec GmbH
• 2014: Main initiator of the “German-African Healthcare Forum” and of the multisectoral “Action Group on Ebola”
• 2012-2016: Founding Member | Saxon Future Commission for Biotechnology & Life Sciences
• 2012-2014: Founding Member | Advisory Board of the Coordinating Agency for the Free State of Saxony Healthcare Sector
• 2009-2016: Founding Chairman of the Board | biosaxony – Free State of Saxony Biotechnology & Life Sciences Association
• 2000-2014: Managing Partner | Partec GmbH

Further Activities
In 2012, Roland Göhde and co-founded the non-profit Göhde Foundation with a specific focus in Africa on essential healthcare, water supply, education and electricity supply, since 2017 with a second area of activities in classical music, especially in the context of supporting children as well as top young talents.

Awards
Besides other awards, Roland Göhde received the Innovation Award of the Free State of Saxony in 2003 and the IQ Innovation Award of Central Germany in 2007. At the “1st German Congress of World Market Leaders” in 2011, he was honored with the Young Entrepreneurs Award, granted for the first time by Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG. For his commitment and merits for the biotechnology sector in the Free State of Saxony, Göhde received the “Biosaxony Award” in 2019.